Curtain-fixture



` (No Model.)

J. L. BAK-BR.

CURTAIN FIXTURE. N0.1492,705. Patented Feb, 28, 1893.

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UNiTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. BAKER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 492,705, dated February 28, 1893. Application filed March 31, 1892. Serial No. 427,247. (No model.)

To al? w'om' t may 00F/067%: the other end is pulled, the curtains will be Belt known that LJoHNLAWRENCE BAKER, similarly closed. By arranging the inner ada cltlzen of the United States, residing at Baljacent ends of the guide rods parallel with timore, 1n the State of Maryland, have inventeach other, and causing them to overlap, the

5 ed anew and useful Curtain-Fixture, of which inner edges of the curtains will be drawn past 55 the followingis a specification. each other, thereby-completely closing the The lnvention relates to improvements in curtains at the middle of the frame. curtain fixtures. Each side of the curtain cord has the por- The object of the present invention is to tion, to which its curtain is attached, ar- 0 Slllpllfy and improve the construction of curranged in the rings of the latter, and this ar- 6o tam f XtuleS, and t0 enable the meeting edges rangement separates the sides of the curtain of slidlng'curtains to overlap when the curcord and prevents anyliability of the curtain mm? Fe Closedcord becoming tangled and inoperative. The The lnvention consists in the construction inner lapped ends of the guide rods are ex` 15 and novel combination and arrangement of tended vertically to form hangers and are 65 parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated threaded and provided with nuts which seln the accompanying drawings and pointed cure them to the top of the frame, and the out 1n the claim hereto appended. outer ends of the rods are threaded and pro- I In the drawings-Figure l is a front elevavided with nuts. zo tlon Showing acurtain fixture embodying the It Will be seen that the improvement-s here- 7o invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional in described are applicable to all classes of view.

curtains. y Like numerals of reference indicate oorre- When large curtains are employed it will Spondlng parts 1n all the figures of the draW- be found advantageous to secure the depend- 5 1112s ing ends of the cord to the frame and to em- 75 l, l designate guide rods secured to the top ploy operating handles 10 provided with pulof a W1ndoW or other frame 2, and extending leys ll and receiving the looped portions of from the side to the middle thereof, and havthe ends of the operating cord. The handle lng their lnner ends overlapping each other, 10 may if found necessary be provided YWith 3o and arranged parallel with each other; and extension cords l2 to bring the higher handle 8o arranged on the guide rods are rings 4, to within easy reach. Whlch are secured curtains supported by and Vhat I claim isadapted to slide on said guide rods. In a curtain fixture, the combination of a The curtains are operated bya cord 5 which frame, the independent guide rods extendingv 3 5 passes around a pulley 6 arranged at one side from opposite sides of the frame to the mid- 85 0f the frame 2, and extending along the guide dle thereof and having their inner adjacent rods and having its ends passing over and ends overlapping and terminating short of depending from a pair of pulleys 7 arranged their outer ends and extended vertically to at the opposite side of the frame. The outer the top of the frame at opposite sides of the 4o edge of the top of each curtain is secured to middle thereof to form hangers and threaded 9c the frame, and the inner edge is attached to and provided with nuts, said guide rods havone side of the curtain cord Y5. The portion ing their outer ends threaded and provided of each side of the curtain cord to which va with nuts and secured to the sides of the curtain is attached is arranged in the rings 4, frame, the rings arranged on the guide rods 45 one curtain being attached to onehalt` of one the two curtains secured to the rings, the 95 side of the curtain cord and the other curtain single pulleys located adjacent to the inner being attached to the farther half of the opends of the guide rods and at the outer posite side of the curtain cord whereby when end of one of the guide rods, the pair of one end of the curtain cord is pulled, the curpulleys located at the opposite side of the 5o tains willbesimultaneouslyopened, andwhen frame, and the doubled curtain cord extendroo ing around the single pulley at one side of a In testimony that I claim the foregoing as frame and having its ends depending from the my own I have hereto affixed my signature in Io pairs .of pulleys at the opposite sido of the the presence of two Witnesses.

frame and having the curtains attached to its 5 sides at opposite sides of the frame, each side JOHN L. BAKER.

of the curtain oord having its portion to which WVitn esses: its curtain is attached arranged in the rings J NO. H. SIGGERS,

thereof, substantially as described. I-I. F. RILEY. 

